Coriaender Shaders is a Vintage Story mod by Coriaender. Coriaender Shaders adds shader-based water reflections, waves, lighting, cloud shadows, and extended terrain shadow maps to Vintage Story.
Why this mod is worth installing
This mod is for players who want more convincing water and shadows without replacing the game's overall visual style. It also offers settings for balancing image quality against performance.
What Coriaender Shaders adds
The water shader combines surface lighting, Fresnel highlights, specular reflections, waves, and two reflection methods. Skybox reflections show the surrounding sky, while screen-space reflections can reflect visible terrain and objects through ray marching.
Terrain shadows are rendered through cascaded shadow maps, extending their coverage across the loaded world and improving how shadow edges blend. Cloud shadows add moving atmospheric shading, with a choice between soft blurred edges and a harder style closer to the game's geometry.
Several controls are aimed at performance tuning. SSR stride changes the distance between ray-marching samples: higher values run faster but can introduce more noise and banding. Shadow cascade count, softness, and maximum darkness provide further control over the final result.
Where to download Coriaender Shaders
The official Vintage Story Mod DB page is the right place to get the current release through the in-game mod manager.